October 2016

Hi everybody Our technical writer, Carol Bailey, is letting you know what’s new and hot in the docs for this month. Happy Halloween! Reminders: Follow us on Twitter (@TheRMSGuy) and join in our peer community at www.yammer.com/AskIPTeam. Dan (on behalf of the Information Protection team) The Documentation for Azure Information Protection (formerly Azure Rights Management) has...

This post is the first in a 3-part series detailing Conditional Access from Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security. The way your employees interact with their devices, apps, and corporate data has changed with the adoption of mobility and cloud services. While users have become more productive, the new norm of mobile productivity requires innovative tools...

By Alex Simons, Director of Program Management, Microsoft Identity Division

Howdy folks, We have heard from you loud and clear that Azure AD B2B (business to business) collaboration capabilities are critical to your success. So we are working to make them as efficient as possible. Today I’m excited to announce that our new Azure AD B2B Invitation API is now in public preview! The vast...

This month’s Endpoint Zone is packed! In this episode, Simon and I dive in on the massive amount of news from Ignite, we recap the foundation session, and then there’s a long chunk of live demos (AADIP, MAM-CA, CA for Windows, Lookout integration, and more). There’s even a sneak peek at the upcoming improvements to the...

Howdy folks! If you follow this blog regularly, you know that over the past 6 months we’ve been adding a lot of new features to Azure AD Connect Health. It is one of our more widely used Azure AD Premium features and over 10k customers use it in production. So today, I’m excited to announce...

Hello everyone! Update 1610 for the Technical Preview Branch of System Center Configuration Manager has been released. Technical Preview releases give you an opportunity to try out new Configuration Manager features in a test environment before they are made generally available. This month’s new preview features include: Improvements to the notification experience for high-impact task...

By Alex Simons, Director of Program Management, Microsoft Identity Division

Howdy folks, We have launched so many public previews and so many capabilities have reached GA recently that even if you are a follower of our blog you might have missed this bit of news: #AzureAD PowerShell v2.0 is now in public preview! We know that for many Azure AD and Windows Server AD admins, PowerShell is...

It’s been several weeks since the story broke about Trident/Pegasus and the vulnerabilities they exploited in iOS. There has certainly been a significant (although a lot less than expected) amount of conversation in the industry about these vulnerabilities, but I believe the really important conversation to have right now is less about the specific issues exposed by...

What an incredible Microsoft Ignite we had this year! Thanks to the 800+ of you who came to our breakout sessions and learned about RDS Improvements in Windows Server 2016 and Citrix innovations on our platform, as well as How to Deploy RDS in the Cloud. A huge shout out to our Microsoft MVPs who...

Today, 101 years ago, the Ford Motor Company manufactured its 1 millionth Model T automobile. Thanks to our customers, we also have a reason to celebrate today as we are continuing to see an incredible adoption of our own model, the current branch of Configuration Manager. Our current branch model was designed to provide our...

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Everyone (and I mean everyone) on the Microsoft 365 team has been pursuing some very ambitious goals in the ten months since we launched Microsoft 365. Those goals have all been laser focused on one key thing: Helping our customers effectively navigate their own unique path towards the digital transformation that they need to succeed...

Howdy folks, Today I’m happy to announce the public preview of the PingFederate configuration integration in the latest release of AADConnect. With this release customers can easily and reliably configure their Azure Active Directory environment to use PingFederate as their federation provider, and we’re excited to offer a more seamless integration experience to our customers....

If you ever got to shadow a Microsoft leader for a day and listen in on the meetings they attend, I think you’d be surprised by how much time is spent talking about how to support the day-to-day work done by IT Pros. We think about this constantly. A lot of answers to these questions...

On Wednesday we announced that the Microsoft Intune APIs being surfaced through Microsoft Graph have been moved from “preview” to Generally Available. We are really excited about this milestone, and we look forward to learning how to make it even better as you give us feedback and direction on the way you want to use...

Last week at Microsoft Ignite, more than 25,000 IT professionals converged in Orlando Florida to learn about Microsoft’s technology advancements, skill up across new products, and meet with Microsoft experts. For EMS we unveiled a wave of new capabilities, presented more than 45 sessions, and met with thousands of customers. I wanted to take a...